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I live in New Mexico, I started reading King around 1975 (15 yo) and became a collector in 1983/84 when I bought my first collectible book, a first edition Gunslinger for 185.00, thought I must have been crazy. Over the years I have owned a lot of King S/L's (The Stand, Skeleton Crew, Eyes of the Dragon, Six Stories etc.) all purchased at issue price, unfortunately all sold in hard times. I did manage to hold on to the DT series starting with The Wastelands and added TDoTT (thanks David) recently. The sale of my House in CA and move to NM allowed me to purchase some of Jae Lee's fantastic Gunslinger Born art (11 pages so far) and my "Holy Grail" a Whelan remarqued DT7.

Welcome Dave! Glad to have you here. And you are welcome for the S/L Drawing of the Three. Now, if only I could find you a S/L Gunslinger.

Captain, Road Prison 36 : What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.

Dragline : Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me - with nothin'.
Luke : Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

My name is Jim from NY. I've been a Constant Reader since I was a high school kid in the late 80s - first King book I read was the HC of The Dark Half to give you a tighter time frame. Over the years I managed to gather a collection of trade HCs of all King's work.

My first toe in the water of true collecting was this past December when I got my s/l SoD. Since then, I've added a bunch of limiteds to my collection, but nothing particularly rare - such as the limiteds of Desperation & Insomnia, My Pretty Pony, etc... Like I said, things that are pretty much readily available, but still a nice foundation to being building my collection.

Hope we've been well met and to become a regular contributor to this board.

My name is Jim from NY. I've been a Constant Reader since I was a high school kid in the late 80s - first King book I read was the HC of The Dark Half to give you a tighter time frame. Over the years I managed to gather a collection of trade HCs of all King's work.

My first toe in the water of true collecting was this past December when I got my s/l SoD. Since then, I've added a bunch of limiteds to my collection, but nothing particularly rare - such as the limiteds of Desperation & Insomnia, My Pretty Pony, etc... Like I said, things that are pretty much readily available, but still a nice foundation to being building my collection.

Hope we've been well met and to become a regular contributor to this board.

Welcome Jim. We are indeed well met. What part of NY do you hail from (as it's a BIG state)? I work in NYC during the week. Dolan lives and works in the city. If you are a city dweller, that would be pretty cool!

Welcome and we look forward to you comments/pictures etc in the Collector's Forum.

Captain, Road Prison 36 : What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.

Dragline : Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me - with nothin'.
Luke : Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

Welcome Jim. We are indeed well met. What part of NY do you hail from (as it's a BIG state)? I work in NYC during the week. Dolan lives and works in the city. If you are a city dweller, that would be pretty cool!

Welcome and we look forward to you comments/pictures etc in the Collector's Forum.

Hi Wizard - live and work on Long Island, make my way into Manhattan a few times a year though, so I'm pretty darn close to you guys. I think I will become a regular around here, I've gotten the King collecting bug pretty bad and, as money allows, I'll be looking to add to my collection as often as I can!

I recently decided that its time to divest myself of all my DVD & CDs on e-bay, so any profits I make from there will be redirected into my King collection. Unfortunatley, I wont be able to post any pics for a while, I recently moved and won't be unpacking my books until early next year when I finally get to set my new media room up, but as soon as I can post pics, I will!

Captain, Road Prison 36 : What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.

Dragline : Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me - with nothin'.
Luke : Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

No space to hold 'em. I had over 55 long boxes. All bagged/boarded.
I think i got into it sooo much as a way to buy happiness during an unhappy marriage. I always thought the next back issue would finally be the last one i needed to complete my collection. Never happened. Much like Roland, this was an impossible quest.

Do i miss 'em? Not really. It was kinda freeing not being that addicted to comics. Now, i only buy the ones that interest me. Once done with 'em, i pass 'em on to tick-tock boy.

Only kept two out of my collection FF #66 and 67. Purchased at a comic convention in NYC the day my son was born. The issue are 1st appearance and origin of Him a.ka. Adam Warlock. Sometimes i think i should've named my son that.

I've been such a bad moderator! I have been neglecting you guys for so long. I was on vacation though and I'm glad to be back and also glad to see that everything is managing fine without me thanks to Patrick and Randall!

Yeap, it's been a long time. Just got back from Kuwait, started work again, had my 2nd Son, Family all over the place and now things are getting back to normal. Thank God. This place looks good and I think it will be fun just being a regular member...whew....